Speakers & MODERATORS

James P. Clark, Founder/Chairman, The World Technology Network

Brian Dumaine, Senior Editor-at-Large, Fortune

Lev Grossman, Senior Writer and book critic, TIME; co-author, Techland blog, TIME.com

Ali Velshi, Chief Business Correspondent, CNN

Dr. John Baker, CEO, Baker No-Tillage Ltd

Gerardine G. Botte, PhD, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Ohio University

Steve Cochran, Steve Cochran, Vice President, Climate and Air, Environmental Defense Fund

Alex B. Cone, CEO / Alpha Geek, CodeFab LLC; consultant, Apple

Professor Graciela Chichilnisky, Architect of the Carbon Market for the Kyoto Protocol; Managing Director, Global Thermostat; Director, Columbia University's Consortium for Risk Management

David Clinch, former Senior International Editor and Social Media expert, CNN; Editorial Director, Storyful.com; Founder, Clinch Media

Peter Eisenberger, Managing Directors, Global Thermostat

Gary Flake, Founder & CEO, Systems Complex

Adam Gopnik, Author, Angels & Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life

Jesse Gilbert, Dark Matter Media llc, Sound and software designer

Dr. Moira Gunn, Host , NPR's Tech Nation. Also a professor where she focuses on Global Information Systems and Biotechnology

Pen Hadow, Director, Geo Mission Ltd.

Dr David Hartwell, Three-time winner, Hugo Award

Mary Lou Jepsen, CEO and Founder, Pixel Qi

Dawn Jutla, Professor, Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University

Art Kleiner, Editor-in-Chief, Strategy+Business

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor & Founder, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.

Dr. Paul Levinson, Author; Former President, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Lily Mazahery, Founder, Legal Rights Institute

Dr. John Mendlein, Chairman, Fate Therapeutics

Ehsan Moghaddasi, PhD candidate focusing on "Social Movements and New Media," social anthropology, Boston University

Ben Neill, Composer, Inventor & Performer

David Orrell, Mathematician and Author, The Future of Everything, Economyths

Nicholas Parker, Executive Chairman/Co-Founder, The Cleantech Group

Jonathan Peachey, CEO, Virgin Management USA, Inc., for Virgin Galactic

Jason Pontin, Publisher & Editor in Chief, Technology Review

David Post, Chairman, Next Island

David Pogue, Personal Technology Columnist, The New York Times; Emmy-Award winning tech correspondent, CBS News

Zoran Popovic, Professor, University of Washington, for Foldit

Marc Raibert, Co-Founder and President, Boston Dynamics Inc, (BDI)

Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Co-Founder, Gapminder Foundation

Jeffrey A. Serfass, President, Technology Transitions Corporation

Dr Stanley Schmidt, Editor, Analog Science Fiction & Fact magazine

Stuart Schulzke, Director, Content Development, FORA.tv

Jigar Shah, CEO, Carbon War Room

Albert H. Teich, Director of Science & Policy Programs, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Dr. Margaret C. Turnbull, New Worlds Observer Lead Scientist, President, Global Science Institute, Certified Supplier, Northrup Grumman Aerospace Systems, Global Science Institute/Northrup Grumman

Jimmy Wales, co-founder, Wikipedia; Director, CiviliNation

Bryan Walsh, Writer, TIME

Andrea Weckerle, Founder & President, CiviliNation

Dr. Stephen Wolfram, Founder & CEO, Wolfram Research; Creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha; Author, "A New Kind of Science," Winner, MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship

Takashi Yabe, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Dr. Huang Zhiyong, Department Head of Computer Graphics and Interface Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR